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The Genomic Repairman is currently a Ph.D. student who escaped from the deep south, and studies DNA damage and repair through biochemical and genetic approaches. He intends to use pine away about his scientific interests and rant about the things (and there are lots of them) that annoy him.

My posts are presented as opinion and commentary and do not represent the views of LabSpaces Productions, LLC, my employer, or my educational institution.

So if you are a life scientist and you have been hiding underneath a rock you might have missed Rebecca Skloot's bookumentary (as I'm calling it on) history, scientific impact, and ethics of the cells from Henrietta Lacks, commonly referred to as HeLa. Most of us have come into contact with these cells in the lab at some point in our career so this was a great read for me. I definitely think you should take a look at the book and you can borrow my copy if you want to be a member of the Genomic Repairman's book club. Enough about all this talk of the HeLa book, Skloot is making money, now its time for me to make my page views dammit. So in 1997 Adam Curtis with the BBC put out a documentary on the cells entitled The Way of All Flesh. Thanks to digitization you can take a look at documentary broken down into 8 parts on my youtube page or the full cut of the documentary (if you don't mind the load time) from the link here.